<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" alt="Jim Stovall" width="100" height="143" />If you remember anything from your geometry class in school, it’s probably the fact that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line.</p>
<p>Moving forward along that straight line always represents the most efficient, productive, and profitable course of action, assuming that you have picked your destination point wisely.</p>
<p>Recently, I heard about the artwork in the design on an Australian coat-of-arms. There are two animals indigenous to Australia that appear on that coat-of-arms. They are the kangaroo and the emu. These two animals aren&#8217;t too much alike, but they do share one unique characteristic. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/08/strive-to-always-move-forward/" title="Permanent Link: Strive to Always Move Forward" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2324,"date":"2014-08-06T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:33:58","slug":"strive-to-always-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/08\/strive-to-always-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Strive to Always Move Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-stovall-10.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Stovall\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/>If you remember anything from your geometry class in school, it\u2019s probably the fact that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward along that straight line always represents the most efficient, productive, and profitable course of action, assuming that you have picked your destination point wisely.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I heard about the artwork in the design on an Australian coat-of-arms. There are two animals indigenous to Australia that appear on that coat-of-arms. They are the kangaroo and the emu. 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